Water electrolyzers (WEs) are a key technology for a sustainable economy. When powered by renewable electricity, WEs produce green hydrogen, which can be used for energy, fertilizer, and industrial applications and thus ...

Water dissociation (WD, H2O → H+ + OH−) is the core process in bipolar membranes (BPMs) that limits energy efficiency. Both electric-field and catalytic effects have been invoked to describe WD, but the interplay of the ...

The price of photovoltaic (PV) modules has continued to drop in recent decades and the normalized cost ($/kW) is approaching that of some fossil fuel sources. Two fundamental components of the final PV cost are the efficiency ...

Climate change dilemma forces researchers from all over the world to focus on developing solutions for reducing fossil fuel consumption and overall energy use. In this dissertation, several advanced materials for energy ...

In the midst of a growing energy crisis, green energy is a central point of conversation. Green energy can be efficiently created in electrochemical devices via water electrolysis. Semiconductors can be used in electrochemical ...

Photoelectrochemical energy conversion is a promising method to harvest incident sunlight and convert/store the energy in stable hydrogen gas bonds. The process is reliant on coupling between a light-absorbing semiconductor ...

While photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing is on track to provide a substantial portion of world electricity generation, the growth of the industry is likely to be lower than desired to meet targets designed to mitigate climate ...

The ability to form multiple component heterostructures of two-dimensional materials promises to provide access to hybrid materials with tunable properties different from those of the bulk materials or two-dimensional ...

Anthropogenic climate change has driven interest in the research and development of clean energy alternatives. Great advancements in renewable energy production have been made, but their intermittent nature requires the ...

Controlling the electronic structure and requisite charge transfer at and across interfaces is a grand challenge of materials science. Despite decades of research and numerous successes in the fields microelectronics and ...